MILLION WORKERS HONOUR DEAD STATESMAN.
By Telesraph—Press Association—Copyright Ottawa, January 23. As a mark of respect to Lord Strathcona's memory every wheel throughout the Canadian Pacific Company's huge railway and steamship systems will remain stationary for three minutes while, the body is being lowered into its grave. Trains will stand still amid the Rocky Mountains and on the prairie. In the cities all the workshops will be Silent, the trans-Pacific and trans-Atlalitic steamers will bo stationary in midocean : activity everywhere will bo suspended while tho words "Earth tn earth, dust to dust" are being recited at Highgate cemetery. It is estimated that- a million workers will thus pay tribute to the dead statesman.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 1967, 26 January 1914, Page 5
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113MILLION WORKERS HONOUR DEAD STATESMAN. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 1967, 26 January 1914, Page 5
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